Understanding the Stages of Addiction Recovery

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   Judy

   September 24, 2017 at 1:24 AM

   I have been trying, as a transliminal, to make sense of existentialism. It seems to me existentialism says it proposes meaning, but can lead to indifference and nihilism, says it proposes oneness, yet can lead to isolation, and though it promotes nondualism – argues against religion as a valid path to enlightenment for those of good will.

   I have experienced Heaven in a NDE as a baby, and know there is good reason we are all seekers in this life seeking a Home and One Personal Mind greater than and outside of ourselves, even though we are One with, through and in this Source right now. It’s a paradox and mystery, but a meaningful one.

   Life is *like* a dream, and although we are all cocreators with God, we didn’t dream this life up. God did.

   But I guess my question here is – doesn’t existentialist *therapy* really *teach* dissociation from trauma, as well as self judgement regarding actions taken because of trauma – rather than revisiting and relearning trauma, correcting how we perceive what happened to us, embracing not dissociating from grief, reparenting oneself, and working through the process of unraveling what was done to us? Existentialism seems to promote self blame for mistakes made because of trauma, and a general dissociation from life itself; rather than as you say, that healing soul journey. In other words existentialism says “just get on with it – you are bigger than this. This didn’t really happen to you” which is why people develop mental illnesses in the first place.

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   Bill

   September 28, 2017 at 5:13 AM

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